Why Iraq Will Get Nowhere Even If It Manages To Defeat ISIS

In a TV interview, Iraqi MP Mish’an Al-Jabouri admitted that he had
taken millions of dollars in bribes. In a January 26 interview with
Al-Etejah TV, MP Al-Jabouri claimed that all Iraqi politicians take
bribery and that only a coward would not. He claimed that the entire
political echelon is corrupt and responsible for the destruction of the
country. Al-Jabouri is a member of the Iraqi Commission of Integrity,
tasked with investigating governmental corruption. He refused to
disclose names of fellow corrupt politicians for fear that "they will
kill me right in the street."

"By God, the stories I know. . . If the Iraqis knew these stories, they would storm the Green Zone and burn it down." - Iraqi MP Mish’an Al-Jabouri.

Both the Baghdad and Erbil regimes in Iraq are hopeless in the long run because of the corruption of their political class and their political failure to defeat ISIS.